1.
William Butler Yeats -
“It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.”
2.
Unknown -
“Adam Had ‘em.”
3.
Unknown -
“Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn't have to hear all about the men she could've married, and she didn't have to hear all about the dishes his mother cooked. .”
4.
Mark Twain -
“Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apples for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
5.
Mark Twain -
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, know how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.”
6.
William Shakespeare -
“Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave–makers; they hold up Adam's profession.”
7.
William Shakespeare -
“Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!”
8.
Prophet Muhammad -
“If you spend (to help others), O son of Adam! I [God] shall spend on you.”
9.
Marianne Craig Moore -
“I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.”
10.
John Milton -
“The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.”
11.
John Milton -
“Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.”
12.
John Milton -
“Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.”
13.
HAROLD MacMILLAN -
“It is, of course, a trite observation to say that we live 'in a period of transition.' Many people have said this at many times. Adam may well have made the remark to Eve on leaving the Garden of Eden.”
14.
Rudyard Kipling -
“Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener’s work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away! And the Glory of the Garden, it shall never pass away!”
15.
Aldous Huxley -
“I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation – the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.”
16.
Howard W. Hunter -
“The first recorded instruction given to Adam after the Fall dealt with the eternal principle of work. The Lord said: 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.' (Gen. 3:19.) Our Heavenly Father loves us so completely that he has given us a commandment to work. This is one of the keys to eternal life. He knows that we will learn more, grow more, achieve more, serve more, and benefit more from a life of industry than from a life of ease.”
17.
Thomas Hood -
“When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!”
18.
Augustus William Hare -
“To Adam, Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants, home is paradise.”
19.
Pierre-Paul Broca -
“I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.”
20.
Dion Boucicault -
“I wish Adam had died with all ribs in his body.”
21.
Hal Borland -
“If there were wild strawberries in Eden, and there must have been, Adam was a fool as well as a sinner to taste any other fruit.”
22.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce -
“INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to — in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.”
23.
Lord Alfred Tennyson -
“The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.”
24.
William Shakespeare -
“And Adam was a gardener.”
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